AnAge entry for Sula dactylatra
Classification (HAGRID: 01723)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves (Taxon entry)
Order: Suliformes
Family: Sulidae
Genus: Sula
- Species
- Sula dactylatra
- Common name
- Masked booby
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- 25.5 years (wild)
- Source
- ref. 427
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,461 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,461 days
- Incubation
- 43 days
- Clutch size
- 1.5 (oviparous)
- Clutches per year
- Weight at hatching
- 52.2 g
- Adult weight
- 1,739 g
- Postnatal growth rate
- 0.081 days-1 (from logistic function)
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- Not yet available
- Basal metabolic rate
- 5.5209 W
- Body mass
- 1289.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.004283 W/g
References
- [0820] John Dunning (2008), CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
- [0732] Starck and Ricklefs (1998), Avian growth rate data set
- [0510] Reynolds and Lee (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: passerines and non-passerines do not differ
- [0444] John Terres (1980), The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
- [0427] BBL - Longevity Records of North American Birds
- [0445] The Birds of North America Online
External Resources
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 174699
- Animal Diversity Web
- ADW account (if available)
- Encyclopaedia of Life
- Search EOL
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 56068
- Entrez
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- Ageing Literature
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- Images
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